Welcome to Polls Apart
At every election, thousands of disabled voters are denied the chance to play an equal part in our democracy. Scope’s ‘Polls Apart’ campaign aims to end this exclusion.
Problems include polling stations without ramps, information in inaccessible formats and staff who aren’t trained to support disabled voters.
At the last General Election we surveyed over 2,000 polling stations and found that 68% could be inaccessible to a disabled person.
We told the Government about that, and now local authorities should be making their polling stations accessible.
Find out what your local authority says about the accessibility of your polling station.
You can help to open elections to disabled people by filling out the Polls Apart survey when you vote. We’ll use what we find out to continue changing things for the better.
About polling stations near you
Find out what your local authority has told us about the accessibility of polling stations near you. When we collected this information from local authorities, not all replied or provided full details. We're sorry if we are unable to return information about your polling station.
Reproduced with kind permissions of the Electoral Commission